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[-] wuffah@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

It wasn’t the Nazis, or the open White Nationalism, or Elon Musk’s toxic narcissistic musings and endorsement of the fascist and deadly Trump regime, or the full hearted philosophy of dismantling democracy and open hatred of empathy. It wasn’t even the absurd and intensely rejected misnomer of ‘X’ forcibly replacing “Twitter”…

No, in the end, it was the pornographic nudity that caused the downfall of the so called ‘X’. So it goes.

[-] Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

That's how it goes sometimes. The Mines Act of 1842 in the UK didn't get passed because a bunch of children (some as young as 8 years old) died in a horrific mining accident. It was passed because during the investigation of that accident it became known that the women working in the mine were wearing trousers, and due to the excessive heat in the mines, were working topless in the presence of men. Victorian England wasn't scandalized by a pile of children's corpses, but goddamn it, something had to be done about those bare tiddies.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Wikipedia lists as a result of the act "No child under 10 years old was to be employed underground."

Hooray...?

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Well to put it into context, you were allowed to work underground at the same age you were allowed to have sex, which was two years before you were allowed to be married, at the good ol' ripe age of 12.

This whole "you gotta be 16/18/21 to be considered an adult" thing is really recent in human history all things considering.

[-] Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just can't understand what goes inside those people's minds no matter how hard I try and that's really frustrating.

[-] Vizzerdrix@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

The response of X is pretty telling

A) they can easily deactivate/restrict the ability of Grok to create non-consensual porn or even cp B) they still choose to offer it (for money)

[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That’s a stupid argument. Restricting it to only paid customers is a good thing considering that you can do it for free on Gemini, ChatGPT and free online bikini generators. Get a grip.

[-] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've seen people comparing outputs across the main LLMs arguing otherwise. I don't think online bikini generators existing is an argument against: Murderers exist so we better stop trying to lower homicides. It's more of a sign of your personal ethics, especially with your final derogatory "get a grip"

[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I’m saying that we should stop the people, not the tools.

We imprison murderers, we don’t stop selling knives.

[-] Instigate@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

This is the exact same argument used against gun control and it’s disingenuous at best; obfuscating and lying at worst.

Of course we should limit the scope and availability of the tools that people use to cause harm to other people. Especially when other LLMs have been able to prevent this from occurring.

[-] porcoesphino@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Agreed with a minor clarification:

The argument used against gun control in the US, when other OECD countries don't have the same issue. I mean: if you chart per capita US is an outlier, not that gun deaths don't exist in other OECD countries.

I think it's important to include because most of these companies are US tech companies so some of the underlying culture that's sustaining the guns issue is more pronounced in the US could be effecting this issue

[-] 0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yes. And they indeed did drastically limit the scope, so what is your point. They took action and people still complain whilst not complaining at all about the remaining free alternatives like I mentioned.

[-] shani66@ani.social 4 points 1 month ago

What the actual fuck? That's the literal worst reason to ban this evil clanker.

[-] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

my brain auto filled "child", but yeah, without that... tf

[-] shani66@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

That'd make too much sense for conservatives

[-] nil@piefed.ca 2 points 1 month ago

There are much more reasons to block Grok though, it's a good thing for humanity anyways

[-] baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I can see Aceh, Indonesia's fully Sharia law province blocking Grok or anything culturally disruptive, especially if it's just a matter of filtering out traffic from a handful of IP addresses.

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